I am trying to call a function to open a lightbox when someone clicks a link that create. I have seen this done before but do not recall how something like:
google.com:javascript(openWindow())
does anyone know how I can do this?
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A good word to search for more information on this topic is "bookmarklet".zzzzBov– zzzzBov2011-07-26 01:21:20 +00:00Commented Jul 26, 2011 at 1:21
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javascript:openWindow()
is a URL that most browsers interpret as invoking the openWindow() function and treating the result coerced to a string as the result of loading the URL.
See HTML5 6.1.5 The javascript: URL scheme for more detail.
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zzzzBov
more specifically you'd write
javascript:window.open('http://www.google.com/');
jeffreynolte
What I am trying to do is have the function called on the page. I will give an example.
Mike Samuel
@jnolte, When should the function be called? As the page loads or as a link or button is clicked? If the latter, then James McCormack has answered your question.
jeffreynolte
I am looking to call it when the page loads but via a parameter in the url. I want a lighbox function to open ONLY when the person clicks the link I provide. so essentially i am looking to pass the function into the url via a parameter. I am quite sure this is possible but do not know how.
James McCormack
You could encode the function using
encodeURIComponent(), send it in the querystring, and then eval() it on the target page if the querystring parameter is detected. This does feel quite hacky though, and I don't recommend the approach. It would be better to just pass a querystring parameter to cause a function on the target page to run, possibly using the querystring parameter as an argument.you might be referring to this
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
function clickMe(){
//your code here to call lightbox and etc.
alert('test');
}
</script>
<a href="javascript:clickMe()">click</a>
</body>
</html>
Comments
Do you mean
<a href="#" onclick="yourOpenLightboxFunction(); return false;" />
This answer gives more detail.
Comments
I think it can be BookMark, you can bookmark to quickly run JavaScript functions from your address bar.
Comments
The following code ended up being what helped me to complete the task. I found the answer here
var url = document.location.href;
if(url.search(/\?lightbox/i) !== -1){
//run function here
}